HUMOR Digest - 12 Oct 1997 to 13 Oct 1997

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 03:53:38 -0400
From: Jim Moore Jr
Subject: Moore on Art

One of my neighbors, Gina, is an accomplished artist herself as well as a gallery owner. My taste in art leans more towards "PlayBoy" magazine than "kinetic action" or "vibrant validity"; but I have attended several of her shows.

At one such event, of so called "abstract and cubist" works, I was attracted to a rather unusual rendering with a nice frame.

Gina came over to ask me if I saw anything I liked and I pointed to the one I had been studying for a while.

"That's the light switch Jimmy." she said in dismay.

Once, during a discussion of art and artists, I asked Gina if she thought the ability to paint was inherited.

She replied, "Well take the Spanish painter Velazquez, who is very popular in Brazil by the way, but that's another story. Anyway, did you ever hear of Velazquez's Mother ?"

"Well, no." I admitted.

"Have you ever seen anything by Velazquuez's Father ?"

Again I replied in the negative.

"Well," Gina said, "I guess you see what I mean then."

I agreed because I didn't want to crush her by saying that I never heard of Velazquez either. Maybe the next time I'm in Brazil...

Getting back to all this "expressionism" in art, personally I think things ought to look like things. To me it's fairly easy to tell what the artists are trying to say with their smears and swirls -- they're trying to say they can't paint worth a damn.

I think my Grandson best summed up my feelings. We were looking at one wild mish-mash of colors and he asked, "What's that ?"

I said, "It's supposed to be a cowboy on his horse."

"Well," he continued, "Why isn't it ?"

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